Over 1,000 women and girls from 15 African countries have gathered in Johannesburg South Africa to try and find solutions to current issues affecting them. Africa Women in Dialogue, an international feminist and membership based organization committed to achieving gender equality,sustainable development and women’s rights has organized the forum under the theme: “ strengthening the continental African women’s movement within ...

We’ve all been there – a football in the face during a kickabout with your niece, or a whack on the ankle by your son’s out-of-control scooter. So it’s good to know we mere mortals aren’t the only ones to suffer at the hands of our beloved offspring. Music star Gaz Coombes revealed on Tuesday he has had to cancel ...

A suicide bomb attack on a gathering of religious scholars in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least 43 people, officials say. At least 83 more were injured as the clerics met at the Uranus hall to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. It is one of the deadliest attacks in Kabul in recent months. No-one has admitted ...

Minister of Higher Education Nkandu Luo says the confusion that involved the Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ) and the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on the conduct of medical programmes at the Copperbelt University was as a result of miscommunication between the two institutions. Early this month, the Higher Education Authority overruled the Health Professions Council of Zambia’s suspension of three ...

Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo has justified the cost attached to security measures that government has put in place in curbing smuggling of maize. Government has deployed Zambia National Service and Police officers to various parts of the Country to man road blocks that have been set up to curb the smuggling of maize. Mr. Katambo has told parliament that ...

Copperbelt Province Police Commissioner Charity Katanga says UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema has been warned and cautioned for Seditious Practices. Ms Katanga has told Q-news in a telephone interview that this is contrary to section 57 (1)( d) as read with section  60 (1) (f) of the Penal Code. She says Mr. Hichilema is alleged to have broken this provision of ...

Former minister of finance, Felix Mutati says securing a financial bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has now become a matter of urgency. Mr. Mutati says if Zambia does not secure the us$1.3 billion government is seeking from the IMF, there will be a significant deficit on the 2019 national budget. Speaking during a public forum organized by the ...

Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology (CNST) project national Coordinator Reuben says the center once constructed will open up many opportunities for the country to grow its economy in various sector. The center which will be constructed by Russian state owned nuclear corporation, Rosatom will boast a wide range of applications of radio technologies in medicine, agriculture and industry, which ...

President Edgar Lungu has met with UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema during a meeting facilitated by the three church mother bodies namely the Council of Churches in Zambia, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia and the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops. The meeting which was held on Monday, 12th November 2018 was part of the church’s continued effort build consensus on the processes ...

Proposed plans for a breakaway European Super League are “fiction” – according to the two most powerful officials in European football. Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin and Andrea Agnelli, the chairman of the influential European Club Association (ECA) which represents over 200 leading teams, say they are “united” – despite recently leaked documents claiming secret talks had been held over the ...